Sublime Text Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Sublime Text for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Sublime Text and loads of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Sublime Text are Vim, VSCodium, Geany and Kate.

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Sublime Text iconSublime Text
  2020
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Sophisticated text editor for code with sleek interface, multi-select tabs, side-by-side definitions, and swift variable renaming using multiple selections.

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Sublime Text alternatives page was last updated Feb 27, 2025
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  1. Lime Text icon

    Lime Text

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    Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in Go (Programming Language). If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is at an early stage. It is a chance and a challenge.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Lime Text screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    It would appear that Lime Text has been abandoned. It's web site is unavailable and it appears no work has been done on it since last year.

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

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    wxMEdit

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    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CN flagChina

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    wxMEdit screenshot 1

    wxMEdit Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Full-Text Search
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Portable
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Hex Editor

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  4. Espresso icon

    Espresso

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    Espresso is a powerful text editor for web developers, from the creators of CSSEdit .

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • BE flagBelgium
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Main window and preview

    Espresso Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Spell Checking
    3.  Code Completion
    4.  Live css editing

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    CodeLobster IDE

    CodeLobster IDE is a free cross-platform IDE primarily intended for editing PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript files with special support Drupal, Joomla, JQuery, AngularJS, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Laravel, Magento, Symfony, Twig, Yii and...

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    Komodo IDE

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    Code smarter and faster with Komodo IDE, the cross-platform professional development environment for dynamic languages and open technologies. Komodo's award-winning feature set includes standard editor functionality like code formatting, commenting, auto-indent and syntax...

    69 Komodo IDE alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CA flagCanada

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    UI with dark theme

    Properties

    1.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Autocompletion
    4.  Multiple Cursors
    5.  Code Completion
    6.  Python IDE
    7.  Package Control
    8.  Debugging
    9.  Embedded debugger

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  7. Haroopad icon

    Haroopad

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    Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author various formats of documents such as blog article, slide, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • KR flagSouth Korea

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Haroopad screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The last update was in December 2018.

    Haroopad Features

    1.  Support for MarkDown
    2.  Vim Key Mapping
    3.  Publishing

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    CodeRunner

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    A simple programmer's editor with a tightly-integrated console.

    It's excellent for rapidly prototyping code with its super fast edit-run-edit -run-save workflow, and its Cocoa integration gives it a real edge over the command line.

    It has syntax highlighting and code co.

    17 CodeRunner alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    CodeRunner screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Code Completion
    4.  Rad
    5.  Objective-c
    6.  Applescript
    7.  Repl
    8.  Regex substitution

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  10. NINJA-IDE icon

    NINJA-IDE

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    NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). NINJA-IDE runs on Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows desktop operating systems, and allows developers to create applications for...

    57 NINJA-IDE alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • AR flagArgentina

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    NINJA-IDE screenshot 1

    NINJA-IDE Features

    1.  Python IDE

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